jim engel is live in washington with more. >>> well, many democratic candidates are trying to distractrom their vote by criticizing the president's missteps, including his infamous promise that everyone could keep their plans and doctors no matter what. louisiana senator mary landrieu emphasizes she introduced her own bill to force the president to keep that promise. >> the promise that you made, this is a promise you should keep. snoo now, even a faithful supporter, former liberal lawmaker bernie frank, said that wasn't true. you shouldn't lie to people, and they just lied to people. others try to sidestep the issue by talking about health care without even mentioning the president, the affordable care act, or obama care. senator mark pryor and his father talk about when the senator was diagnosed with cancer and wanted an experimental surgery, his health insurance didn't want to pay for it. >> no one should be fighting an insurance company while you're fighting for your life. that's why i helped pass a law that prevents insurance companies from cancelling your policy if you get sick o

a major up stack kl of many of these democrats, chief national correspondent jim engel looks at how that comes into play. >> reporter: you told them that they could keep it. system democrats are trying to detract from their votes for obama care by characterizes the president's missteps, by promising people can keep their plans and doctors no matter what? >> mary landrieu offered lengthation requiring people be able to keep their plans and doctors, harry reid has yet to schedule a volt on it. kay haygan -- >> soon as this came to my attention last fall, aimmediateaimmediate impedely -- >> reporter: she voted against a 2010 republican effort to limit such cancellations which the who is threatened to veto. others tried to side step the issue by talking about health care without even mentioning the president, the affordable care act or obama care. senator mark pryor talked about when he was diagnosed with cancer himself and wanted an experimental surgery his health insurance company didn't want to pay for. >> no one should be 2350ifighti insurance company while you're fighting for that you a

jim engel tells us that offers convenience but not without some risk. >> in notion of just sit bang androll is real misleading and i think causes a lot of harm to people. >> reporter: after the disastrous rollout of the obama care website last tag, no wonder the administration wants to reenroll those already signed up in hopes of avoiding another embarrassment. but experts say that blindly reenrolling may be in trouble. >> a lot of people having hey, do you really want to continue on with a plan or do you want manager different? >> the automatic renewal is's si, it will keep people getting obama care, but you have to trust but verify, and you have too go look, you can't just be on automatic pilot for health insurance. >> that's because the amount of subsidy anyone gets is tied to the second lowest silver level plan and that cost is very likely to change, leaving mean leaving more than they're entitled to leaving a nasty surprise next year at tax time. >> everyone's going to have differences in their subsidies t vast majority really probably need to change plans in order to continue with

here's chief national correspondent jim engel. >> reporter: president obama's claims about enrollmentama care are getting a assistant downgrade. >> the number of americans who have signed up for private insurance in the marketplaces has grown to 8 million people. 8 million people. >> as of august 15 this year, we have 7.3 million americans enrolled in the health insurance market place coverage and these are individuals who have paid their premiums. >> reporter: an erosion of 700,000, the key was the reference to those who paid. >> you do not have to sign up, you have to sign up and pay on a regular basis to be enrolled. >> and that's why private ins e insurers are saying they're -- >> it's competed expectations in some cases. >> reporter: for instance state officials in florida say their enrollments have fallen 220,000 from some 983,000 in april, a drop of more than 20%, insurance companies experienced a similar erosion. >> i talked to a number of insurance companies around the industry and they're indicating that they're down as low as 70%. not the original enrollments they had. >> i

chief international correspondent jim engel jose the story. >> reporter: it isn't just critics who sayhe health care law is hurting jobs, several regional federal reserve banks found hard evidence that businesses are cutting jobs precisely because of obama care. >> three federal reserve banks in new york, philadelphia and atlanta have surveyed their folks in the area and 1/5 of employers are saying they cut back on employment. roughly 1/5 say they're moving from full-time to part time employment. >> what this means for small businesses as a whole is over $22 billion of&óo earnings gonr their workers and 250,000 jobs. >> reporter: president obama has repeatedly delayed the mandate that requires 50,000 employers to provide insurance because of the negative impact. but businesses know it's coming so many avoid hiring to keep their worker roles below 50 and the mandate applies only to those who work 30 hours a week and incentive for employees to reduce hours. >> you have kind of a natural cliff there, that keeping your employees under that magic number, doesn't ignite that issue that you'

jim engel uncovering big consciouses for americans who already have healthcare. >> reporter: analystsdict it will mean the end of employer-provided insurance with former obama advisor writing 80% of the plants will disappear in 10 years. >> it will be better for people. most people who get their coverage through an employer don't have choice. reporter: the wall street firm goes even further predicting 90% of such plans will disappear. >> the companies will be hard pressed to justify why they would continue to spended the kind of money they spend by offering insurance through corporate plans when there is an alternative suction died by the government. >> reporter: the penalty for not offering understand, $2,000 per worker is much less than the cost of providing it. >> for a worker making $15 an hour, typical employer coverage for a family costs $15,000 or $16,000. that's more than hatch of that workerser's annual wage. >> reporter: creating an incentive to shift workers to the exchanges. but barack obama criticized the republic' can proposal. >> this would lead to the unraveling the em

. >> richard engel and jim miklaszewski, thank you so much. joining me now is michael leiter. what are british and american intelligence and other intelligence agencies doing in the counterterrorism center, your former counterparts, they are looking at that horrible video and they are trying to figure out where it was taken, when it was taken. what are the clues? >> they are. again, further developing who the culprit is is, where it was located. but in truth, although this is catching everyone's attention, most of the intelligence effort will not be on these videos. it's identifying locations in syria, in iraq where isis is operating. understanding their chain of command, how they are operating, where they are moving and identifying westerners who have traveled to the region and might be coming back. and that is really, outside of the regional consequences that we are seeing from isis, the westerners who can travel back are the key focus of counterterrorism officials because they pose a threat to the u.s. homeland, the british homeland and elsewhere. >> and to the first point,

eliot engel joins me and congressman jim crowley, both represent new york city. thank you for being here. congressman crowley, i'm going to start with you. it seems now there is a coalition building, even a bipartisan, i would say, consensus on the hill that what the president outlined in his thursday night speech is the way to go. is that accurate? >> i think it is accurate. i think people on the hill recognize -- general petraeus just said from the president outlined has been very strong. mr. ryan indicates he supports the president's movement here. we need to have that statement of growing and really demonstrable support for the president in this effort. >> i want to have you listen to your speaker, speaker john boehner and his comments on the president's plan. take a listen. >> what the president has asked for, as the commander in chief is this authority to train the syrian rebels and, frankly, we ought to give the president what he's asking for. >> congressman engel, are you surprised? mr. boehner has been very critical of the president at every juncture. ar

engel reporting. a lot of moving parts this morning in the war on terror. let's bring in jim maceda from our london bureau. we have breaking news. reports of new air strikes inside syria. >> good morning, francis. that's right. according to syrian monitoring agency, on the ground, a reliable one. two more air strikes took place. near the syrian border with iraq. and the second, near the turkish border overnight, striking next to that syrian kurdish town. at the heart of a fierce battle, as i.s.i.s. tries to take control of that border area. as many as 150,000 kurdish refugees have reportedly fled the fighting there. and it appears, the fighter planes that were used were not syrian, which would suggest these were coalition strikes. >> now, a group that is very powerful. u.s. intel says the threat was eminent. just how close? >> they were getting close. and imminent can mean sooner rather than later. u.s. officials were concerned about this group of hardened al qaeda veterans of pakistan, afghanistan, and chechnya. they were recruiting members to blow up a commercial planes. so

engel reporting. >>> certainly a lot of moving parts this morning in the war on terror. let's bring in nbc's jim aceda from london bureau. jim, i know we have breaking news to talk about, reports of new air strikes in syria. >> that's right, dara, according to a syrian monitoring agency on the ground, two more waves of air strikes took place, the first near the syrian border with iraq near the town of albu kamal. the second near the turkish border near kobani. it's been in the news, the heart of a fierce battle as isis tries to gain control of that strategic border area. as many as 150,000 kurdish refugees have reportedly fled the fighting in recent days. it appears the fighter planes that were in that operation were not syrian, which would suggest these were coalition strikes on isis. >> jim, if we can move on to core san. u.s. says a threat was imminent. just how close? >> they were getting close. but imminent can often mean sooner rather than later. u.s. officials clearly were concerned about khorasan. some intelligence sources telling us the group was not likely ready to launch an attack at

jim clapper's acknowledged that i think they underestimated what had been taking place in syria. >> reporter: there were alarm bells. last january isis started gobbling up territory in iraq. fallujah falls, the iraqi army collapses. richard engel reports. >> reporter: the gains that were achieved by u.s. troops in iraq, very hard fought gains have now been wiped out, or are being wiped out. >> reporter: a month later congress is told about the isis leader, al baghdadi. >> his mission is clearly stated in his own statements. to carve out his own governing territory from baghdad to syria to lebanon. >> reporter: front line airs a documentary on isis victories in syria. >> the group wants to establish an islamic state in syria. >> reporter: and the head of defense intelligence tells congress. >> it's an increasingly concern that we're going to have to pay very close attention to. not only inside of iraq, but for the whole region. >> reporter: june 10th, mosul falls, iraq's army turns tail and runs. richard engel reports on "nightly news." >> reporter: some iraqi security forces are fighting, but most appear to be stripping off their uniforms, leaving them in the streets and abandoning their posts, weapons and vehicles. >> reporte

the balance of my time and thank all of those, ranking member engel, chairman royce, my colleague as co-chair of the ukrainian caucus, jim gerlach, and sander levin, for making this moment possible. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. the gentleman from california reserves. the gentleman from new york is recognize . mr. -- is recognized. mr. engel: i yield three minutes to a member of the foreign affairs committee, mr. connolly. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. connolly: i thank my dear friend mr. engel from new york. and i congratulate the authors of h.res. 726. they've done a great job in building bipartisan support for this resolution. i rise in support of that resolution. the united states must stand with the people of the ukraine in the face of russia's naked aggression and reverse violation to ukrainian sovereignty and prevent further russian meddling and attacks on what they consider former soviet republics. we must remember that this assault began in cry mia, part of the ukraine. it was in crimea, that russian military forces violated, initially, ukrain

jim acosta, thanks. >> you bet. >> joining me now from jerusalem, republican congressman ed. >> russ: of california, the house foreign affairs chairman and democratic congress men eliot engel from new york. on the same committee. congressman ingle, you were in great britain and now in israel. there david cameron, the prime minister, announced plans to seize passports at the border and then investigate individuals carrying them. this is all about trying to prevent an attack on their homeland by people who were rad dalized perhaps in syria or elsewhere. do you think this is a good idea, or does it infringe on civil liberties? >> well, i think it's a necessary idea. you always have to balance the civil liberties with security. and i think that the prime minister is trying to find a happy medium. it's clear there are many people who have left the uk and have gone top practice jihad and come back and there's a big fear in print that there might be an imminent terrorist attack. i think they're balancing it. i think we're going to have to balance it. we have to do something to pry to prevent these potential attacks. >> chairman. >> russ: what do you think? do you believe the u.s.

jim mickula chef ski. thanks for being here tonight. >> you bet, reverend al. >> how long does the pentagon expect the strikes to last? >> i heard you ask richard engelhappens when the bombing ends? the bombing is not going to end. what we'll see, there will be an occasional spurt of air strikes like we saw last night, when there are huge targets of opportunity. or they see some kind of attempt or effort, ability, to take out some isis leadership. but what we're going to get is a daily, steady, drip drip drip of the targets of opportunity that we saw here. couple of vehicles here, a tank there, a weapons depot there. this will go on for some time. officials predict that this campaign to degrade and destroy isis is going to take years. >> now, are sources in the pentagon satisfied with the operation so far? >> with the operation last night, they are. they set out to accomplish what they needed to do, and that is to send a message to isis, to iraq, to the rest of the world, particularly the arab allies in the region, that the u.s. is serious about putting isis in a box, and eventually destroying isis. that's going to take years, but they felt like they

, approaching the 20th anniversary, jeffrey engel invited a group of scholars down to texas a&m to discuss the meaning of the fall of the berlin wall. and jimsheehan was there to talk about the meaning of the fall of the berlin wall in eastern europe and my good friend came and talked about the meaning of the fall of the wall in china, bill talbin came and talked about the meaning of the fall of the wall in russia. and i talked about the meaning of the fall in the united states. at that conference, which i think jeff is going to talk a little bit more about in a few minutes, at that conference i was very much impressed by the divergent meanings attached to the fall of the wall. in brief in western europe, jim sheehan explained the demise of the wall signified the triumph and efficacy of european integration and multilateral institutions. in russia the fall of the wall signified the need to avoid naive leadership. in china the fall of the wall meant the need to reactivate economic reform and to avoid political liberalization. and i talked about the meaning of the fall of the berlin wall in the united states. and here i emphasize that it mean